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PROGRAM 

INTERNATIONAL 

CIVIL  AERONAUTICS 

CONFERENCE 

OF 

WASHINGTON 
DECEMBER,  1928 


PROGRAM 

INTERNATIONAL 
CIVIL  AERONAUTICS  CONFERENCE 

OF 

WASHINGTON 


UNITED  STATES 

GOVERNMENT  PRINTING  OFFICE 

WASHINGTON 

1928 


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PROGRAM 


Tuesday,  December  11 

10  a.  m.  to  8  p.  m.  .   Registration  and  deposit  of  credentials  at  con' 
ference  headquarters. 

Wednesday,  December  12 

10  a.  m Opening  plenary  session  of  the  conference. 

12.30  to  2  p.  m.  .  .  .  Luncheon. 

2.30  to  4.15  p.  iii .  .   Subsessions  of  the  conference. 

5p.m Delegates  received  by  the  President  at  the  White 

House. 

9  p.  m Reception  by  the  Secretary  of  Commerce,  at  the 

United  States  Chamber  of  Commerce  Building. 

Thursday,  December  13 

10  a.  m Plenary  session  of  the  conference. 

12.30  to  2  p.  m.  .  .  .   Luncheon. 

2.30  to  4.30  p.  m.  .   Subsessions  of  the  conference. 

8.30  p.  m Twenty -five     Years     of    Flight,     Washington 

Auditorium. 

Friday,  December  14 

10  a.  m Plenary  session  of  the  conference. 

12.30  to  2  p.  m.  .  .  .  Luncheon. 

2.30  to  4.30  p.  m.  .   Subsessions  of  the  conference. 

8  p.  m Banquet  to  members  of  the  conference  by  Ameri' 

can  delegation. 

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Saturday,  December  15 

10.30  a.  m Aerial  show  at  Boiling  Field  and  Anacostia  Naval 

Air  Station  by  United  States  Army,  Navy,  and 
Marine  Air  Services. 

12.30  to  2  p.  m.  .  .  .   Luncheon. 

2.45  p.  m Inspection  of  laboratories  at  United  States  De^ 

partment  of  Commerce,  Bureau  of  Standards. 

6.30  p.  m Departure  of  delegation  for  exercises  at  Kitty 

Hawk,  N.  C,  in  commemoration  of  the  twenty 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  Wright  brothers1  first 
flight. 

Monday,  December  17 

1  to  2  p.  m Ceremonies  at  Kitty  Hawk,  N.  C. 

2p.m Departure  from  Kitty  Hawk  on  return  trip  to 

Washington. 

Tuesday,  December  18 
7  a.  m Arrival  in  Washington.     Disbandment. 


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GENERAL  INFORMATION 


The  headquarters  of  the  conference  is  the  United  States  Chamber 
of  Commerce  Building,  at  1615  H  Street  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

The  executive  officer,  in  Room  E,  will  furnish  information  on  all 
phases  of  the  conference  activities. 

SESSIONS  OF  THE  CONFERENCE. 

All  sessions  of  the  conference  will  be  held  at  the  headquarters  in 
rooms  to  be  designated  on  the  bulletin  board  located  in  the  main 
entrance  hall. 

The  mornings  of  December  12,  13,  and  14  will  be  taken  up  by  ple- 
nary sessions  of  the  conference.  On  the  afternoons  of  each  of  the  three 
days  there  will  be  three  simultaneous  subsessions  of  the  conference 
devoted  to  various  phases  of  civil  aeronautical  development. 

SUBJECTS  FOR  DISCUSSION  AT  THE  CONFERENCE. 

All  papers  submitted  to  the  conference  in  time  will  be  printed  and 
bound  in  a  single  book,  a  copy  of  which  will  be  presented  to  each 
member  of  the  conference  before  the  opening  session.  Papers  of 
special  interest  and  importance  will  be  selected  from  this  volume  by 
the  program  committee,  to  be  read  at  the  morning  plenary  sessions  of 
the  conference,  and  to  form  with  other  papers  the  subjects  of  discus- 
sion at  the  three  simultaneous  subsessions  of  the  conference  which 
will  take  place  each  afternoon. 

As  soon  as  possible  after  the  close  of  the  conference,  there  will 
be  prepared  another  book  containing  a  record  of  the  discussions  at 
the  conference.  A  copy  of  this  book  will  be  mailed  to  each  member 
of  the  conference. 


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MEMBERS1  CARDS. 

Each  delegate  and  representative  of  an  aeronautical  organisation 
will,  on  registering  and  depositing  his  credentials,  receive  a  member's 
card,  bearing  his  name  and  number.  This  number  is  assigned  to  the 
member  for  the  duration  of  the  conference  and  will  identify  his  mail 
box  at  the  message  center  and  his  seat  in  the  plenary  session  hall. 
This  card  will  also  serve  for  identification  at  various  conference 
activities. 

MESSAGE  CENTER. 

A  message  center  has  been  established  in  the  rear  of  the  inner 
lobby  of  the  headquarters.  Distribution  of  all  conference  reports, 
invitations,  and  information  circulars  will  be  made  there,  as  well  as 
mail  addressed  to  the  members  in  care  of  the  International  Civil 
Aeronautics  Conference. 

In  order  that  mail  may  be  delivered  only  to  the  delegates,  members 
are  requested  to  establish  their  identity  at  the  message  center  by 
presenting  their  members1  cards. 

POST  OFFICE. 

There  is,  at  the  message  center,  a  branch  of  the  United  States 
Post  Office  Department,  where  stamps  may  be  purchased,  letters 
mailed,  etc.  In  this  connection,  attention  is  called  to  the  special 
2-cent  and  5-cent  commemorative  stamps  issued  by  the  United  States 
Post  Office  in  connection  with  the  International  Civil  Aeronautical 
Conference. 

CABLES,  TELEGRAMS,  AND  RADIO  MESSAGES. 

There  are  also  at  the  message  center  branch  offices  of  the  cable, 
telegraph,  and  radio  companies,  prepared  to  handle  at  regular  rates 
messages  sent  by  the  delegates. 

TELEPHONE  SERVICE. 

Telephones  are  installed  at  the  message  center  for  the  use  of  the 
members  in  making  local  calls. 


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LUNCHEONS. 

A  luncheon  for  all  members  of  the  conference  will  be  served  gratis 
on  December  12,  13,  14,  and  15  at  the  Carlton  Hotel,  923  Sixteenth 
Street  at  12.30  p.  m.  The  member's  conference  card  will  serve  for 
admission  to  these  luncheons. 

NEW  YORK  RECEPTION,  AND  RECEPTION  AT  OTHER  PORTS. 

Foreign  delegates  will  be  met  on  shipboard  at  New  York  and  other 
ports  of  entry  by  representatives  of  the  reception  committee  and  their 
landing  facilitated  through  the  customs.  They  will  then  be  taken  to 
their  hotels  in  cars  provided  by  the  reception  committee.  At  New 
York  an  office  of  the  reception  committee  will  be  located  at  the  Hotel 
Roosevelt,  at  Madison  Avenue  and  Forty-fifth  Street,  and  all  dele- 
gates  passing  through  New  York  are  requested  to  call  at  that  office 
as  soon  as  possible  in  order  to  secure  full  information  about  the  entire 
conference  activities.     The  office  will  be  open  on  November  26. 

TRIP    TO    CHICAGO    AERONAUTICAL    EXPOSITION— AIR    TRANS^ 
PORTATION. 

At  Chicago,  111.,  December  1  to  9,  the  International  Aeronautics 
Exposition  is  being  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Aeronautical 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  to  this  exposition  all  delegates  and  repre- 
sentatives  to  the  International  Civil  Aeronautics  Conference  at 
Washington  are  invited. 

Free  airplane  transportation  for  the  conference  delegates  and  repre- 
sentatives has  been  provided,  weather  permitting,  from  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  to  Chicago,  and  from  Chicago  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  on  the  return 
trip  to  Washington. 

The  uncertain  weather  conditions  at  this  time  of  year  over  the 
mountains  intervening  between  New  York  and  Cleveland  make  flying 
the  entire  distance  to  Chicago  uncertain.  The  part  of  the  journey 
from  New  York  to  Cleveland  must  therefore  be  made  by  rail. 

A  special  train  will  leave  New  York  at  6.30,  the  evening  of  Decem- 
ber 5,  from  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Station.  The  members 
making  this  trip  must  limit  their  baggage  to  not  more  than  50  pounds 
weight  (23  kilos).  The  train  will  arrive  at  Cleveland  at  8.50  the 
following  morning. 

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ENTERTAINMENT  AT  CLEVELAND,  OHIO. 

On  arrival  at  Cleveland,  where  the  delegates  will  be  the  guests  of 
the  Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  delegation  will  be  taken 
from  the  station  to  one  of  the  principal  hotels,  where  facilities  for 
rest  after  the  journey  will  be  available.  The  delegation  will  then  be 
entertained  at  luncheon  by  the  Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

The  fleet  of  multimotored  airplanes  for  the  trip  to  Chicago  will  be 
assembled  at  the  Cleveland  Airport  and  departure  of  the  delegation 
will  be  made  not  later  than  1  o'clock  Thursday,  December  6,  weather 
permitting.  In  case  of  very  unfavorable  flying  weather,  the  trip  to 
Chicago  will  be  made  by  train,  arriving  at  Chicago  the  same  evening. 

ENTERTAINMENT  AT  CHICAGO. 

Headquarters  for  the  conference  at  Chicago  will  be  at  the  Hotel 
Stevens,  South  Michigan  Boulevard  and  Seventh  Street,  and  transpor- 
tation will  be  provided  for  the  delegation  from  the  airport  or  railroad 
station  to  the  hotel. 

While  in  Chicago  the  delegation  will  be  the  guest  of  the  Aero 
Commission  of  the  City  of  Chicago. 

The  International  Aeronautics  Exposition  has  designated  the  fol- 
lowing day,  Friday,  the  7th  of  December,  as  the  day  for  the  special 
entertainment  of  the  delegates  to  the  conference.  Nearly  every  type 
of  American  airplane,  both  commercial  and  military,  motors  and  acces- 
sories, and  many  interesting  exhibits  showing  the  recent  development 
and  progress  of  commercial  aeronautics  will  be  on  display.  There 
will  also  be  exhibited  European  aircraft,  sent  to  the  United  States  for 
that  purpose  by  the  manufacturers. 

Luncheons  to  which  the  delegates  have  been  invited  have  been 
arranged  in  Chicago  for  Friday,  the  7th  of  December,  and  following 
the  visit  to  the  exposition  on  Friday  afternoon,  there  will  be  a  ban- 
quet given  by  the  city  of  Chicago  at  the  Sherman  Hotel,  North  Clark 
and  West  Randolph  Streets. 

Dayton,  Ohio,  is  the  home  city  of  the  Wright  brothers  and  is  the 
scene  of  their  first  experiments  in  aviation.  The  city  of  Dayton  is 
celebrating  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  Wright  brothers1  first 
flight,  and  the  members  of  the  conference  have  been  invited  to  par- 

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ticipate  in  a  dinner  and  a  civic  reception  on  the  evening  of  Monday , 
December  10. 

The  conference  airplanes  will  leave  Chicago  for  Dayton  on  Satur- 
day, December  8,  or  Sunday,  December  9,  weather  permitting,  for 
the  purpose  of  transporting  members  of  the  conference  to  Dayton. 
In  the  event  that  bad  weather  makes  flying  impossible,  a  train  will 
leave  Chicago  for  Dayton  Sunday  evening,  which  will  arrive  at 
Dayton  early  Monday  morning. 

ENTERTAINMENT  AT  DAYTON. 

At  Dayton  the  members  of  the  conference  will  be  entertained  by 
the  city  of  Dayton  and  the  Dayton  Chamber  of  Commerce.  They 
will  be  met  either  at  the  airport  or  the  railroad  station  and  taken  to 
a  hotel  headquarters  where  they  will  have  an  opportunity  to  rest. 
At  Dayton  there  are  the  experimental  laboratories  of  the  United 
States  Army  Air  Service,  embodying  some  of  the  most  extensive  and 
modern  equipment  in  the  United  States.  Arrangements  will  be  made 
for  those  members  of  the  conference  who  so  desire  to  visit  those 
laboratories.  On  Monday  evening  will  take  place  the  dinner  and 
celebration  for  the  Wright  brothers  given  by  the  city  of  Dayton  to 
which  the  members  of  the  conference  are  invited. 

The  trip  to  Washington,  D.  C,  from  Dayton,  Ohio,  must,  be  made 
by  train  because  of  uncertain  weather  conditions  at  this  time  of  year 
over  the  mountains  which  intervene  between  Dayton  and  Washington . 
A  special  train  will  leave  Dayton  for  Washington.  Transportation 
will  be  provided  from  the  hotel  at  Dayton  to  the  railroad  station. 
The  train  arrives  at  Washington  about  1.30  Tuesday  afternoon,  Decern- 
ber  11.  Transportation  will  be  provided  from  the  railroad  station 
at  Washington  to  the  hotels  at  which  the  members  of  the  conference 
will  already  have  made  reservations. 

On  Tuesday  afternoon  it  is  hoped  that  the  members  of  the  confer- 
ence will  register  and  deposit  their  credentials  at  the  conference  head- 
quarters, Room  E,  United  States  Chamber  of  Commerce  Building, 
1615  H  Street  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  special  information  circular  giving  full  details  of  this  trip  will  be 
sent  to  all  members  at  an  early  date. 


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CEREMONIES  AT  KITTY  HAWK,  N.  C. 

Monday,  December  17,  is  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  first 
flight  of  the  Wright  brothers,  which  took  place  at  Kitty  Hawk,  N.  C. 
Here  at  Kill  Devil  Hill  there  will  be  the  unveiling  of  the  cornerstone 
of  a  monument  to  be  erected  by  the  United  States  Government,  and  on 
the  spot  from  which  the  first  flight  was  made  the  unveiling  of  a  memo- 
rial tablet  placed  there  by  the  National  Aeronautical  Association. 
The  delegates  to  the  International  Civil  Aeronautics  Conference  are 
invited  to  participate  in  these  ceremonies. 

A  delegation,  composed  of  the  foreign  members  of  the  conference 
and  of  United  States  members,  will  leave  Washington,  D.  C,  by 
steamer  at  6.30  p.  m.,  Saturday,  December  15,  for  a  trip  down 
Chesapeake  Bay  to  Old  Point  Comfort,  near  Norfolk,  Va.,  arriving 
at  7  a.  m.,  Sunday,  December  16.  Sunday  morning  will  be  spent  at 
the  Chamberlain- Vanderbilt  Hotel  and  in  visiting  the  Langley 
Memorial  Aeronautical  Laboratories,  which  is  one  of  the  most 
important  aeronautical  laboratories  in  the  United  States. 

On  Monday  morning,  December  17,  the  trip  will  be  continued  by 
boat  and  by  bus  to  Kitty  Hawk,  N.  C,  where  the  delegation  will  be 
the  guest  at  luncheon  of  the  Kill  Devil  Hills  Memorial  Association. 
Early  in  the  afternoon,  the  delegation  will  take  part  in  the  cere- 
monies attending  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  the  national 
memorial  to  the  Wright  brothers  and  the  unveiling  of  the  memorial 
of  the  National  Aeronautical  Association  at  the  site  of  the  first 
flight. 

The  delegation  leaves  Kitty  Hawk  at  2  o'clock  on  the  return  trip 
to  Washington,  arriving  there  early  in  the  morning  of  Tuesday, 
December  18. 

A  complete  detailed  description  of  this  trip  will  be  furnished  to 
each  member  of  the  conference  at  an  early  date. 


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